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12 Session Hands-on Orthodontic Course

McHenry, Illinois Course 2013

The Academy of Gp Orthodontics has provided comprehensive orthodontic continuing education courses for over 25 years. Our 12-session hands-on courses are designed to be the closest CE Course to an Orthodontic Residency for the General Practitioner. A highly qualified team of instructors, clinical instructors, and hosts provide on-going support and invaluable comprehensive clinical hands-on training with direct patient treatment to ensure excellent case results. You will have the same instructor for each session with monitoring privileges upon completion. Courses are limited in number of participants to maintain a dynamic student-to-instructor learning experience in a clinical setting.

The course meets two days every six to eight weeks and consists of a Friday classroom instruction and a Saturday comprehensive clinical hands-on training where you will treat patients, not typodonts. Your site host and instructor will provide all the patients, materials, and supplies for the clinical sessions. The lectures include identification and understanding of the various types of patient malocclusions and how they can be treated effectively utilizing the Differential Straight-Arch® Technique. The knowledge gained through the Friday lecture/seminar format is reinforced by Saturday's clinical participation, allowing you the optimum learning experience.

Objectives
• Review and explain all aspects of Stage One treatment and
describe problem areas relating to this stage of
treatment.
* Discuss the clinical application of the technique
in detail
• Explain and demonstrate palatal expansion and cuspid
impaction

Objectives
• Recall Stage One through Pre-Stage Three
* Discuss problem areas relating to these Stages
and their clinical application
• Describe the etiology of malocclusion
• Explain the difference between non-extraction
and extraction treatment
* Recognize various extraction site options

Objectives
• Explain and discuss practice management of the
orthodontic patient as it relates to finance
• Discuss and review the various aspects of the Differential Straight-Arch® Technique
covered in session’s I-V

Objectives
• Discuss and review of Stage Three of the
Differential Straight-Arch® Technique
• Explain and discuss risk management as it relates to the
orthodontic patient
• Discuss various patient oral habits and their relationship to
orthodontic malocclusions

Objectives
• Explain and demonstrate the various case finishing techniques
• Discuss functional appliances that can be used in conjunction
with the Differential Straight-Arch® Technique
• Explain growth and development and their
importance to the orthodontic patient